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Show -25- CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1701-K Identification: ............................ Admitted: Aug. 6, 1957 Extract From "Repayment Histories and Payout Schedules 1952", Bureau of Reclamation. Salt River Project phoenix, ariz. The construction of the Salt River project in Maricopa County, Ariz., was originally authorized by the Secretary of the Interior on March 14, 1903, in accordance with the act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388). Rehabilitation and betterment of the project works is being accomplished under authority of the act of October 7, 1949 (63 Stat. 724), as amended. The project was constructed with the objective of furnishing an adequate water supply to the irrigable lands of the Salt River project, now approximately 240,000 acres. Original project features included the Roosevelt storage dam and power plant, Granite Reef diversion dam, and the improved main canals, placed in service in 1910 and completed in 1911. Additional construction was undertaken by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1936 and completed in 1939. The total actual cost of constructing the Salt River project features was $20,244,688.48. Of this amount, $948,718.96, or 20 percent of the cost of Bartlett Dam (contract of June 3, 1935), was assumed by the Bureau of Indian Affiairs. After adjustment for reduction by the Board of Review in 1918, for revenues received during construction, and for funding interest and penalties and net operation and maintenance costs, the repayment obligation assumed by the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association was $17,482,687.89. Operation and mainte- |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |